Improvement in meat and pickle weights



w. HULGOMB. Murana Pickle' weights.

No.l5,980; Patentedlunelmwm.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.4

WALTER HOLOOMB, OF GARR-ETTSVILLE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONEFOURTII HISRIGHT TO VARREN PEIRGE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEAT AND PICKLE WEIGHTS.

Specification forming part of' Letters Patent No. 151,980, dated June16, 1574; application tiled Api il 1G, 1874.

To all lwhom 'it may concern Be it known that I, WALTER HoLconB, ofGarrettsville, county of Portage and State of Ohio, have invented a Meatand Pickle Weight, of which the following is a specification:

The object of this invention is to provide a suitable weight for use onmeats, pickles, or other articles which require to be kept under brineor pickle of any kind. My invention consists of akcircular weight ot'suitable size and thickness, varying according to the size of the cask,barrel, tub, crock, or other receptaclein which it is desired to beused, such weight to be manufactured of glass or potteryware of anykind, with two seinicircular, oval, or crescent-`shaped openings, A A,near the center, and at such distance from each other that the portionseparating them will form a convenient handle, B, and at the saine timeallow a free circulation of the brine or other fluid. The smaller sizesmay be made with a single round or oval hole instead of two, as abovedescribed,-'at or near the center, and of convenient size for insertingthe hand.

rlhe inventor prefers aplan'o-convex forin for said weight, or that itbe of uniform thickness with both surfaces plain, although various otherforms will answer the same purpose.

It is designed that when a portion of the contents of an y receptacle onwhich the aforementioned weight is placed are desired, the weight may beraised upon one edge, the opposite edge resting against the inner sideot' the barrel or cask in which it is used, while it may readily bereinovcd for the purpose of cleaning, or for the better handling orremoval of any portion of the contents.

I claim as my inventioni A weight manufactured of pottery-ware or glass,substantially as described, for keeping meat and pickles under brine.

XN/ALTER I-IOLCOMB. o

litnesses A WARREN PEIRCE, CHARLEsQB. WEBB.

